Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud-Native & Containers

Allstate Insurance; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 193,725; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Insurance is seeking a Managing Engineer (Software Development/Container Workloads) to lead a team and deliver reference architectures and patterns that scale enterprise applications. You will drive technical direction, participate in design and coding, and partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to raise engineering standards across the organization.

The role requires deep Java, cloud-native apps, containers, and distributed systems experience, plus strong leadership

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and services.
• 2+ years of technical leadership, team leadership, or people management experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and experience building distributed applications and services.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with container technologies and Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and service integration patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, or asynchronous processing frameworks.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
• Design and deliver reference architectures, sample applications, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to address real-world engineering challenges.
• Provide technical leadership for architecture, design reviews, and implementation decisions.
• Promote engineering best practices related to scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
• Build understanding of platform dependencies (e.g., caching, messaging, networking, identity, observability)
• Drive adoption of reusable patterns and standards across engineering teams.
• Participate in coding, prototyping, and troubleshooting activities as needed.
• Manage staffing, prioritization, delivery planning, and team performance.
• Influence engineering standards and platform adoption across the organization.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

2+ years technical leadership

Java

Cloud-native applications

Distributed systems

APIs & microservices

Event-driven architectures

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

Job description

Allstate Insurance is seeking a Managing Engineer (Software Development/Container Workloads) to lead a team and deliver reference architectures and patterns that scale enterprise applications. You will drive technical direction, participate in design and coding, and partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to raise engineering standards across the organization.

The role requires deep Java, cloud-native apps, containers, and distributed systems experience, plus strong leadership